The Role of Gothic Elements in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
During the late 18th century there appeared a very new form of literature, which was very popular and the one is considered to be popular even in this contemporary world, all the age groups are very much interested in mysterious writings, such type of mystery writings come under Gothic Literature. This form of writing provokes the readers to read more, the readers are inspired to the core and they get tremendous enthusiasm when they read such writing. One such analogous writing is Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo; in this fiction Reed inspires the reader’s interest by introducing a psychic epidemic named Jesgrew. The people who gets in to this, start doing things which are anomalous. It is very essential to note that this Jesgrew is considered to be an anti-plague, because it give a fresh and energetic feel to the host, throughout the book it plays the major aspect. Reed starts with the society which gets affected by this Jesgrew, then he confers the wrecked fate of characters and then he brings in the Egyptian myth through Osiris and Isis. Reed makes it luminous that, haunted feel at any circumstance could be rectified only with complete power of the human mindset; it becomes the root of all such feels. This research paper will illustrate on the super natural elements in the fiction Mumbo Jumbo and the connectivity of such element during the history and in the contemporary world. This is attained by exploring Myth and Psychoanalysis.
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Swathi. C
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